Thursday, September 26, 2013

Say what you will about the state of Virginia, its upcoming elections for Governor and Lt. Governor are getting as interesting as a soap opera. The latest piece of dirt involves E.W. Jackson, the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor. It seems that he had a restraining order put on him in 2006.

E.W. Jackson, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of
Virginia, was accused in 2006 of threatening the life of his daughter’s
roommate, according to a Belmont, Mass., police report and a separate
temporary restraining order filed in Middlesex County Court.

Those
two documents, shared with POLITICO by a source opposed to Jackson’s
election, detail the surprise GOP nominee’s involvement in an explosive
personal feud involving his daughter and two other women. The roommate
took out restraining orders against both E.W. Jackson and a third party,
while Jackson’s daughter and the third party both requested restraining
orders against the roommate.

. . . In an interview, Jackson firmly denied that he had menaced his
daughter’s roommate, a denial he also gave to police in Belmont seven
years ago. In his daughter’s affidavit requesting a restraining order
against her then-roommate, Ms. Jackson claimed that the woman had
schemed to separate her from her family and friends and “threatened to
kill my father.”

This will only serve to make Jackson more controversial in the eyes of voters. He has already been catching fire for a number of vicious anti-gay statements. According to Right Wing Watch, Jackson has:

Referred to gays and lesbians as “perverted,” “degenerate,” “spiritually darkened” and “frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally.”

Said regarding homosexuality: “it poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies; it brings the judgment of God unlike very few things that we can think of.”

Argued that gays seek to “sexualize [children] at the earliest possible age” and use “totalitarian” tactics.

Claimed gays are hurting black women: “I’ve heard a lot of young black ladies that a lot of young black men seem to be gay. I’ve heard them complain about it, they say ‘so many of these guys are homosexuals’ and they are frankly frustrated by it.”

Demanded the reinstitution of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell : “The military has been decimated by this lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender policy that has now been implemented. It’s an abomination and it’s only going to weaken us militarily and they need to undo it,” warning that the policy’s repeal is a “disaster of historic proportions.”

Contended that homosexuality is “killing black men by the thousands” and said of gay rights advocates: “what they’re promoting is killing people.”

Called GLSEN founder and anti-bullying activist Kevin Jennings a “radical homosexual activist” who should have been “imprisoned” in a letter demanding he resign as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.

Op-ed: NOM's Brian Brown, the 'Bigocrite'- NOM whines about being victims of "bullying gay," but just how many times has the organization issued threats against people and groups for opposing its anti-gay platform? Grab a chair and take a load off. This documentation is going to take a while.

If certain sources are to be believed, the lgbt community has one less anti-gay ministry to worry about. According to the Minneapolis City Pages:

According to a source close to the situation, Dean's "You Can Run But
You Cannot Hide International" staffers have all walked out on him. Yes,
that includes his notorious street teams and Dean's "Sons of Liberty" radio cohost Jake McMillan,
who our source says put in his two weeks notice and moved back to the
East Coast. (McMillian, for some reason, sometimes went by the name Jake
MacAulay.)

Our source said the beginning of the end came when two former Dean
staffers -- a husband-and-wife team including his former director of
donor relations -- had a falling out with Bradlee. The couple stayed
friends with some "You Can Run" employees and began trying to persuade
their friends to leave the ministry. They had incremental success,
culminating with the resignation of McMillan, and as a result Dean no
longer has anybody working for him.

The source said that in the wake of our July report about disaffected former You Can Run staffer Jake Dagel --
Dagel characterized You Can Run as a "cultic sham ministry" -- a group
of upwards of a dozen former staffers got together and compiled
testimony about how Dean had mistreated and exploited them. They
subsequently brought 28 pages worth of testimony to the Minnesota
Attorney General's office and are currently working on a mediation
proposal with Dean's camp. The group of former staffers seek
reimbursement of funds they say Dean owes them and a guarantee that
Bradlee will never hold another leadership position with a ministry. Our
source isn't sure whether Dean could possibly face criminal charges as a
result of the allegations, some of which constitute crimes.

About Me

Alvin McEwen is 46-year-old African-American gay man who resides in Columbia, SC.
McEwen's blog, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, and writings have been mentioned by Americablog.com, Goodasyou.org, People for the American Way, PageOneQ.com, The Washington Post, Raw Story, The Advocate, Media Matters for America, Crooksandliars.com, Thinkprogress.org, Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, Melissa Harris-Perry, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Washington Blade, and Foxnews.com.
In addition, he is also a past contributor to Pam's House Blend,Justice For All, LGBTQ Nation, and Alternet.org. He is a present contributor to the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post,
He is the 2007 recipient of the Harriet Daniels Hancock Volunteer of the Year Award and the 2010 recipient of the Order of the Pink Palmetto from the SC Pride Movement as well as the 2009 recipient of the Audre Lorde/James Baldwin Civil Rights Activist Award from SC Black Pride. In addition, he is a three-time nominee of the Ed Madden Media Advocacy Award from SC Pride.